Question

a house price went from $138,400 to $141,168, By what percent did the value rise ?

Answer 1

Before you get to the percent rise, how much did the price go up by?

Answer 2

idk. can you answer that for me and what the percent is of how the value rised ?

Answer 3

Can you do the subtraction 141,168 - 138,400 ?
That is how much the price went up.

Answer 4

ok

Answer 5

then what is the percent it rised

Answer 6

To find the percent, divide the part by the total and multiply by 100.
In this case, find how much the price went up by subtracting 141,168 - 138,400.
Then divide the result of that subtraction by 138,400 and multiply by 100.

Answer 7

is it 0.5 % ??

Answer 8

That's not what I got.

Answer 9

Let's do it one step at a time together.
What do you get for 141,168 - 138,400 ?

Answer 10

2,768

Answer 11

Correct. That's what I got.
Now divide 2,768 by 138,400.
What do you get?

Answer 12

0.02

Answer 13

Great. I got that two.
Final step, multiply 0.02 by 100.
This is your final answer as a percent.

Answer 14

i have one more question i am going to ask you like the one we did please help

Answer 15

The answer is 2%, by the way.

Answer 16

sure go ahead

Answer 17

a car production went from 3,000 to 2,850, by what percent has production decreased ?

Answer 18

Here, we again subtract first.
What is 3000 - 2850 ?

Answer 19

150

Answer 20

Great.
Now, divide 150 by the original number, 3000.

Answer 21

0.05

Answer 22

Correct.
Now multiply by 100 to get the percent change.

Answer 23

is it 5% or -5% ?

Answer 24

The percent change is -5%.
The question is "by what percent has production decreased?"
Since the question is already acknowledging the change is a decrease, the decrease is 5%.
The change is -5%, the negative percentage denoting a decrease.

Answer 25

do ypu know how to graph linear equations by 2 variables ?